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Parts of the Americas was treated to a Total Lunar Eclipse (also known as a "blood moon") in March. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...
A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...
A long-dead experimental Nasa satellite suddenly emitted a powerful energy blast recently, leaving scientists perplexed.
Astronomers are puzzled by a strong burst of radio waves traced back to a NASA satellite that had been inactive since the ...
Relay 2 became inoperable nearly 60 years ago, but for a brief moment in 2024, it outshone the rest of the sky.
CMEs are huge bubbles of coronal plasma that the sun occasionally ejects, NASA says online. Often, CMEs look like "huge, twisted ropes," NASA says, because they involve the sun's magnetic fields.
After taking a closer look, however, the team realized that the only viable source for the burst was NASA’s dead Relay 2, a ...
NASA’s computer models suggest that winds high in the atmosphere, just before sunset, push the plasma bands closer together. When these bands collide, they form the X-shape.
A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...
This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...
We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...